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We consider distributed optimization methods for problems where forming the Hessian is computationally challenging and communication is a significant bottleneck. We leverage randomized sketches for reducing the problem dimensions as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

We consider a least squares regression problem where the data has been generated from a linear model, and we are interested to learn the unknown regression parameters. We consider "sketch-and-solve" methods that randomly project the data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Edgar Dobriban , Sifan Liu

Probabilistic ideas and tools have recently begun to permeate into several fields where they had traditionally not played a major role, including fields such as numerical linear algebra and optimization. One of the key ways in which these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Robert M. Gower

Researchers may perform regressions using a sketch of data of size $m$ instead of the full sample of size $n$ for a variety of reasons. This paper considers the case when the regression errors do not have constant variance and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-23 Sokbae Lee , Serena Ng

In this paper we consider large-scale smooth optimization problems with multiple linear coupled constraints. Due to the non-separability of the constraints, arbitrary random sketching would not be guaranteed to work. Thus, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Ion Necoara , Martin Takac

One approach to improving the running time of kernel-based machine learning methods is to build a small sketch of the input and use it in lieu of the full kernel matrix in the machine learning task of interest. Here, we describe a version…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-10 Ahmed El Alaoui , Michael W. Mahoney

This survey highlights the recent advances in algorithms for numerical linear algebra that have come from the technique of linear sketching, whereby given a matrix, one first compresses it to a much smaller matrix by multiplying it by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-11 David P. Woodruff

Spectral clustering has been one of the widely used methods for community detection in networks. However, large-scale networks bring computational challenges to the eigenvalue decomposition therein. In this paper, we study the spectral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Hai Zhang , Xiao Guo , Xiangyu Chang

Sketching algorithms use random projections to generate a smaller sketched data set, often for the purposes of modelling. Complete and partial sketch regression estimates can be constructed using information from only the sketched data set…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-07 R. P. Browne , J. L. Andrews

We propose a new randomized algorithm for solving L2-regularized least-squares problems based on sketching. We consider two of the most popular random embeddings, namely, Gaussian embeddings and the Subsampled Randomized Hadamard Transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

We revisit the problem of sketching using approximate leverage scores for matrix least squares problems of the form $\| AX - B \|_F^2$ where the design matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times r}$ is tall and skinny with $N \gg r$. We derive the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Brett W. Larsen , Tamara G. Kolda

We give a sketching-based iterative algorithm that computes a $1+\varepsilon$ approximate solution for the ridge regression problem $\min_x \|Ax-b\|_2^2 +\lambda\|x\|_2^2$ where $A \in R^{n \times d}$ with $d \ge n$. Our algorithm, for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Praneeth Kacham , David P. Woodruff

Two widely used randomized algorithms are the sketch-and-solve method for least-squares regression and the randomized SVD for low-rank approximation. These algorithms apply a random embedding to compress a target matrix, and they perform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Ethan N. Epperly , Robert J. Webber

Constrained least squares problems arise in many applications. Their memory and computation costs are expensive in practice involving high-dimensional input data. We employ the so-called "sketching" strategy to project the least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Ke Chen , Ruhui Jin

This paper focuses on solving large-scale, ill-conditioned, and overdetermined sparse least squares problems that arise from numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), mainly from the random feature method. To address these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Jingrun Chen , Longze Tan

Algorithmic Gaussianization is a phenomenon that can arise when using randomized sketching or sampling methods to produce smaller representations of large datasets: For certain tasks, these sketched representations have been observed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Michał Dereziński

Over the course of the past decade, a variety of randomized algorithms have been proposed for computing approximate least-squares (LS) solutions in large-scale settings. A longstanding practical issue is that, for any given input, the user…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-07 Miles E. Lopes , Shusen Wang , Michael W. Mahoney

Randomized sketching accelerates large-scale numerical linear algebra by reducing computational complexity. While the traditional sketch-and-solve approach reduces the problem size directly through sketching, the sketch-and-precondition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Ruihan Xu , Yiping Lu

Sketch-and-solve (SAS) is a very successful method to efficiently estimate the solution of heavily overdetermined large linear least squares problems. It uses random sketching to reduce the size of the problem, hence reducing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Irina-Beatrice Haas , Michael B. Giles , Yuji Nakatsukasa

Sketch-and-project is a framework which unifies many known iterative methods for solving linear systems and their variants, as well as further extensions to non-linear optimization problems. It includes popular methods such as randomized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Michał Dereziński , Elizaveta Rebrova